At its press event in New York City, HTC today unveiled the latest addition to its award-winning HTC One family, the HTC One A9. Melding the best of HTC's acclaimed design and innovation with the latest from Google'sAndroid, this is a stunning, no-compromise smartphone that stands out from the (Android) crowd. Built for people who want a better choice, the HTC One A9 is a smartphone that combines striking (already well known but for HTC new) design on the outside with the newest features of Android 6.0 Marshmallow with HTC Sense on the inside to create an unrivaled smartphone experience. An evolution of the iconic HTC One family design, the HTC One A9 draws on the natural beauty around us, by using rich, striking colors and unique finishes - an approach called "metalmorphics".

Gigaset, Europe's market leader in DECT telephony, today unveiled the Gigaset ME family, its first line of smartphones to be developed in-house, just in time for IFA in Berlin. By presenting the three models Gigaset ME Pure, Gigaset ME and Gigaset ME Pro, the seasoned communications specialists from Germany are entering into a new chapter in the second decade of the company's history and are moving to pool the internationally operating group's strengths in an impressive way. For its ME series, Gigaset is uniting state-of-the-art technology with its extensive experience in the development of telecommunications and consumer electronics.

Following last week's announcement of the Pebble Time, Pebble's first smartwatch with a color E ink display, the smartwatch pioneer today unveiled the Pebble Time Steel and a new connector for new kind of accessories. On stage at Mobile World Congress, Eric Migicovsky, Pebble CEO, just unveiled this beautifully-designed smartwatch for iPhone and Android, with a ground-breaking battery life of up to 10 days. Launched last summer, the original Pebble Steel brought sophistication and design to smartwatches. Pebble Time Steel follows in these footsteps, combining beautiful, premium design with the powerful new technology of Pebble Time. Similar to Pebble Time, Pebble Time Steel runs the new timeline interface, has a color e-paper display, built-in microphone for quick voice replies and notes, and is water resistant.

While HTC's brand new and today's announced One M9 is a really important release for HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone specialist tried rather an evolution than a revolution of ithe current line of high-end smartphone series. While the specs all read good, the One M9 (formerly known and code-named as "HTC Hima which stands for "Himalaya") comes with Android 5.0.2/Lollipop, the brand new and enhanced HTC Sense 7, the clear focus was again on design (more about it later). Other high-end specs include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64 bit octa-core CPU where 4 cores running at up to 2 GHz and the other cores run up to 1.5 GHz. It furthermore supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE at 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS/HSPA+/HSUPA at 850/900/1900/2100 MHz (varies by region) and 4G/LTE bands 1,3,5,7,8,20,28 or TDD bands 38,40,41 (also varies by region).

This is most likely the most unexpected product from HTC but indeed, HTC unveiled today during its Mobile World Congress press conference in Barcelona a strategic partnership with Valve; to bring mass-market virtual reality (VR) one step closer. Through the strategic partnership, HTC promises to transform the way in which consumers interact with technology and the world around them with the debut of HTC Vive. The HTC Vive Developer Edition will be launched this Spring, with the consumer edition available by the end of 2015. Vive combines Valve's Steam VR tracking and input technologies with HTC's world-renowned design and engineering talent, setting a new gold standard for an industry that has, until now, struggled to move beyond concept stage.